Thursday, April 27
6:00 – 7:30 pm

Join GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice and authors Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham to discuss their book The Riders Come Out at Night-Brutality, Corruption, and Cover up in Oakland.

Using Oakland as a case study, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham shine a light on American police culture and the struggle for reforms. The authors trace the history of Oakland since its inception through the lens of the city’s police department, through the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers and crack eras, to Oakland’s present-day revival. It is the story of one city and its police department, but it is also the story of American policing—and where it is headed.

The Riders Come Out at Night is the culmination of over twenty-one years of fearless reporting.

Host: Dr. Holly Joshi, Director for GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice

 Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and extremism. A former reporter for The New York Times, he has also been a fellow at Type Investigations and reported documentaries for BBC Panorama and PBS Frontline. His reporting on police corruption, right-wing extremism, and surveillance have earned him several honors, including a George Polk Award for Local Reporting, an Alfred I. duPont Award, and a News & Documentary Emmy.

Darwin BondGraham is the news editor for the Oaklandside. Before joining the Oaklandside, he worked with The Appeal and The Guardian covering policing and gun violence. He was a staff writer for the East Bay Express from 2015 to 2018. He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. You can follow him on Twitter @DarwinBondGraha.

Eleana Binder is the Policy Associate for GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice. Before joining GLIDE in 2021, she worked in eviction prevention at the Homeless Advocacy Project, as well as in nonprofit and local government settings in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Eleana also was in the Emerging Leaders Program at GLIDE when she was in college. In her work, she advocates for changes to oppressive and discriminatory institutional structures and laws to benefit GLIDE’s clients and marginalized people in San Francisco and across the state. This includes a wide range of issues from stopping the San Francisco Police Department from doing racial profiling in traffic stops to advocating for overdose prevention centers to pushing for more funding and support for Family Resource Centers. She is originally from Berkeley and currently lives in San Francisco.